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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

5, including 4 from family, test positive

Five more Non-Resident Keralites, four of them belonging to a family that came from Delhi on June 6, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the district on Thursday. With this, the total number of COVID-19 patients in the district touched 121, including 37 who have been cured of the disease.

A 40-year-old man from Payyanamon, his 36-year-old-wife who was working as a nurse in a Delhi hospital and their two daughters, aged seven and five, tested positive for the viral infection. The fifth patient is a 27-year-old woman from Koipram who came from Mumbai on May 30.

A total of 120 persons, including 78 patients, are under observation at the isolation wards of various hospitals and at a Firstline Treatment Centre in the district as on Thursday.

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